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Detroit Area Study, 1961: Work Group Influence and Political Participation (ICPSR 7285)

Principal Investigator(s):Miller, Warren; Stokes, Donald

Summary:

This study presents data collected as part of the 1960-1961
Detroit Area Study from 419 workers who were members of the United
Auto Workers union. Respondents were asked how long they had worked on
their jobs, what their job duties were, and whether they were
satisfied with their jobs. Another set of questions covered length of
union membership, union activity, their conceptions of what the role
of their union should be, and their satisfaction with the job their
union was doing. Political questi... (more info)

This study presents data collected as part of the 1960-1961
Detroit Area Study from 419 workers who were members of the United
Auto Workers union. Respondents were asked how long they had worked on
their jobs, what their job duties were, and whether they were
satisfied with their jobs. Another set of questions covered length of
union membership, union activity, their conceptions of what the role
of their union should be, and their satisfaction with the job their
union was doing. Political questions covered the good and bad points
of political parties, the Kennedy-Nixon debates, the political issues
facing the nation, party identification, past and present vote in
state and national elections, and political participation. The social
structure of the work group was probed, and respondents were
questioned about the importance of politics in work group
relationships. Demographic variables included social class, age,
organizational membership, religion, education, occupation, income,
and race.

More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Miller, Warren, and Donald Stokes. Detroit Area Study, 1961: Work Group Influence and Political Participation. ICPSR07285-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1977. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07285.v3

Universe:
Members of the United Auto Workers union employed in Ford,
General Motors, and Chrysler plants located in the western part of
greater Detroit, Michigan.

Data Types:
survey data

Methodology

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1984-07-02

Version History:

2011-05-18 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

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